No you are not.
And you are also ignorant. You think that one of the conductors is a neutral, you have no idea what switches do, and you're proposing to wire it up so that it will connect live to earth.
No you haven't.
No it doesn't.
What grounds do you have for "knowing" that?
It is a quick job, for someone who understands what they are doing. You don't.
If you'd gone ahead with your idea of putting the earth into L then some or all of these would have happened when you turned the power back on:
Or possibly, if there are things wrong with your electrical installation, other metalwork in the house becoming live.
Attempting to do electrical work without a proper understanding of what you're fiddling with is a stupidly dangerous idea. You should not be blindly following instructions to put-this-wire-in-that-hole without genuinely knowing why.
Please either get an electrician or put all plans to actually do any electrical work on hold until you know what you're doing.
